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Puerto Rico Tourism Company opposes bill to earmark occupancy tax for Porta del Sol
Summary
The House of Representatives’ Tourism Commission met on Monday, Sept. 8, to consider House bills PC 558, PC 699 and PC 761. At the hearing, Raúl Márquez Hernández, legal and legislative adviser to the executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, presented the agency’s written position and said the company cannot back PC 558, the measure that would require a proportional share of the room occupancy tax (canon por ocupación de habitación) be allocated to the Porta del Sol tourism destination.
The House of Representatives’ Tourism Commission met on Monday, Sept. 8, to consider House bills PC 558, PC 699 and PC 761. At the hearing, Raúl Márquez Hernández, legal and legislative adviser to the executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, presented the agency’s written position and said the company cannot back PC 558, the measure that would require a proportional share of the room occupancy tax (canon por ocupación de habitación) be allocated to the Porta del Sol tourism destination.
The tourism company’s memorial argued that Article 31 of Law 272 of 2003 currently establishes a centralized, programmatic distribution of occupancy-tax revenues and that PC 558 would “despojar” the agency of operational discretion. “El modelo propuesto ... compromete la prioridad fiscal programática operativa de la entidad responsable de…
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